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  • ARAWA

    The year was 1989. I had made it past being a third former at Bayfield High School and was now entering the Fourth Form Year.  One of my first classes was German. I remember opening up the door and seeing the other students in the class and  sitting at a desk...

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  • Robin Bain

    I had a chat with someone yesterday who knew Robin. She lived in Taieri Mouth at the time and her children were taught by Robin. She has so much to say on the subject and will attempt to write more down but here is what I can remember.

    Robin Bain wasn't supposed...

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  • Time I Spent with Laniet and Arawa

    Laniet

    I was in the same class as Laniet from the start of High School and became a close friend in 1990 and we would walk to school together.  We did this from 1990 until Laniet left school in 1992, more or less every day, and so I got to...

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  • POEMS FOR ARAWA LANIET AND STEVEN

    After they died I wrote poems for them and have held onto them for 16 years-  never published. bear in mind they are 16 years old.

    FOR ARAWA

    The Light of your smile

    That brightened our day

    Is overshadowed and dark

    Now you've gone away...

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